Rocky, unfortunately many online forums, particularly of the kiruv variety, traffic in misinformation, to use a modern term.
Aish is extremely zionistic, moreso than mainstream israeli news outlets. It’s actually very embarrassing for us, because a jewish student who is disillusioned with zionism when they learn about der yassin and the other atrocities of the secular zionists, then they see “Orthodox judaism” whitewashing it… it’s doing us no favors.
Kiruv places like to quote the same ridiculous “proof” of environmental activism that the RCA used years ago. Chazal say that Hashem took Adam all around gan eden and said “look how beautiful my creations are, take heed not to ruin my world”
Do you know who has ever taken that medrash to mean physical destruction or pollution?
You guessed it – zero.
The seforim, including the ramchal and maharal, say it means that we shouldn’t destroy the world through sin.
All throughout chazal and tanach, the one destructive force is sin. Not pollution. Not aerosols. Not greenhouse gasses.
To say that these non-sinul entities destroy the world is like saying that the Holocaust happened because of mikrah, just nature.
It’s apikorsus and denial of Hashem’s hashgocha, and denying that it is sin and mitzvos which benefit and destroy the world. Not what kind of car you drive.